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Captain Morgan Fischer - standing up for Ryanair passenger safety - forced out
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 24, 2010 - 11:00 by CEO - (former Cabin Crew)   text 5 comments (last - saturday december 25, 2010 - 08:47)   image 3 images
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1207/presswatch-business.html

PILOT WHO CROSSED O'LEARY RESIGNS - The Ryanair pilot who said the airline should replace Michael O'Leary, the low-cost airline's chief executive, with a junior flight attendant to save money has quit after being reassigned from southern France to the "Siberia" of a base in Lithuania, says the Financial Times.

Captain Morgan Fischer was one of almost 30 Ryanair pilots working at Marseilles who had to move after the airline announced in October that it was closing the base following a disagreement with French authorities. The pilots were asked to bid for new bases. Most did so and were offered work at bases in Spain, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere, including some a few hours' drive from Marseilles, where many live with their families. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Friday December 24, 2010 - 07:03 by LCW   text 1 comment (last - saturday may 28, 2011 - 17:59)
Photos/Report - "Merry Christmas-War is Over" - Catholic Workers "close" Dalston "Arcade of Death"
A merry band of London Catholic Workers and friends, fresh from shooting remakes of videos for John Lennon's anti-war classics "Merry Christmas (War is Over)" and "Give Peace a Chance" (watch this space for the finished videos), took themselves along to their favourite local army showroom, or "arcade of death", inside Dalston Kingsland shopping centre to bring their seasonal message of peace to the happy festive shoppers of east London. ... read full story / add a comment
Nice to think in the times of wikileaks that an IMC site (Paris) can still get the judgers foaming at their commercial press bits.
international / arts and media Thursday December 23, 2010 - 23:10 by .:. iosaf   text 2 comments (last - friday december 24, 2010 - 10:58)   image 2 images
Hortefeux the minister of the interior (= to minister of justice or home secretary) has found a new enemy now that Romanians, women in veils & Africans are old hat.

Yep.

Paris indymedia is according to him an anti-police website which facilitates the indentification of serving police officers thus leading to their general ostracisation & probably unpopularity. ... read full story / add a comment
Rebel Vision
international / anti-capitalism Tuesday December 21, 2010 - 23:22 by Rebels Yell   image 1 image
If incompetent rulers are a pre-requisite for revolution in Ireland, well this most certainly is that time, as we watch the bankruptcy of both finance and Irish leadership dailyunfold. It is somewhat paradoxical for Irish republicans to politically agree with a British proponent of population control such as Huxley but few will deny, these last quotes below, again from Huxley, would be an apt summary of the motivation of a large segment of Irish republicanism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Friday December 17, 2010 - 17:44 by Truthsayer   text 5 comments (last - monday december 27, 2010 - 20:14)
Tommy Sheridan's wife Gail has been acquitted of perjury at the High Court in Glasgow after the Crown dropped the charges against her. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday December 15, 2010 - 13:53 by john throne
In the largest prisoners strike in US history the prisoners in Georgia have united across racial lines. This is a major victory. Please send your support. ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 12, 2010 - 20:56 by Diarmuid Breatnach
Protest in response to the Moroccan attack on Gdim Izik camp in El Aaiun, and the countless human rights violations carried out by the Moroccan Army which has led to a the death of many innocent Saharawi Civilians. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Saturday December 11, 2010 - 23:52 by Paul Ryan   video 1 video file
Students and Teachers Carol singing to raise funds for the projects in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday December 10, 2010 - 00:37 by john throne   text 6 comments (last - sunday december 12, 2010 - 23:11)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
The union and labor leaders should be leading the battle to defend the right of all of us to know what is in the cables of capitalism. But they are so much part of the system they will not. While continuing to point this out and to build opposition forces to these union leaders in the workplaces and unions we, the left and all activist and anti capitalist forces, have to act ourselves. We should join Anonymous which is coordinating the defense of wikileaks and its funding base. Boycott Mastercard, Visa, Amazon etc. At the same time we should seek to give more of a democratic structure to Anonymous so it can become a more effective and democratic and decision making body, with a leadership which is collective and has depth, and so is better able to replace itself when capitalism can arrest or otherwise remove more of its leaders. ... read full story / add a comment
Aine Brady
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 21:05 by LM   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 11, 2010 - 02:18)   image 6 images
Today, students from NUI Maynooth staged a picket at the office of Aine Brady T.D. The protest was organised by the Free Education for Everyone (FEE) campaign, who were also involved in the Castlebar secondary level walkouts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / education Thursday December 09, 2010 - 01:54 by LM   text 8 comments (last - friday december 10, 2010 - 20:28)   audio 1 audio file
Approx 100 students from two secondary schools in Clondalkin (Coláiste Bríde and Moyle Park College) took part in a walk out on budget day against the cut backs in education and increased college fees.

The students gathered in front of the office of John Curran TD in Clondalkin village and got a lot of support from passing cars and pedestrians.

Since then, Shane Donnelly, one of the leaders of the walk out has been suspended from school pending a board of management meeting later this week which will discuss and decide on his expulsion. ... read full story / add a comment
international / eu Wednesday December 08, 2010 - 09:57 by Baggie
Iceland out of recession reports Guardian.

Burn the Bondholders!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/dec/07/iceland-...arter
... read full story / add a comment
Night's Candles are Burnt Out (1927-28) by Seán Keating [3]
international / arts and media Tuesday December 07, 2010 - 21:33 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 09, 2010 - 13:32)   image 4 images
by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin

As the global economic crisis deepens, one may ask how the artist can play any role in social, economic and political change?

Visual artists have been commenting on society since William Hogarth, a pictorial satirist and social critic during the early 1700s, used art to comment on the politics and customs of his time.

The same challenge still exists today - how can the visual artist make images that have a profound effect on people and their view of society and so hope to contribute to making a better society for all? ... read full story / add a comment
Irish Gobshites
international / public consultation / irish social forum Monday December 06, 2010 - 05:49 by Rebels Yell   image 1 image   video 1 video file
The German Ambassador Pauls described Ireland as a “coarse” country infected by pure unadulterated greed and avarice. He didn't mince his word either, describing examples of a small country with an over bearing elite of overpaid Government ministers, junior ministers and a gravy train of political life, living the high on the pigs back, oblivious to the reality of deprived estates of people of no property, the length and breath of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
Aga tries to reason with Sergeant Tallon and Garda Kearns to no avail
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression Monday December 06, 2010 - 05:03 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - thursday december 09, 2010 - 08:39)   image 2 images
What have a young vegan lady, Shell to Sea and the students that got battered by the Riot squad, all got in common?

Throw Interpol into the mix and you've got a tale worth telling! ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday December 02, 2010 - 10:52 by Didier
Some participants in the general assembly of the students of the University Rennes 2, in the movement of unemployed and precarious workers, and in the inter-professional general assembly of Rennes, France. 25 October 2010. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday December 01, 2010 - 11:42 by Teaandtoast
Shocking reading: Wikileaks document on Shannon:
Government wanted to be seen to be hard on the US to win votes in 2007 General election.
US government considered handing the Irish Government the bill for the plane damaged by the 'Shannon Five'.
Repost this to expose the shame of the Irish Government's complicity in the transport of war munitions and prisoners en route to US detention facilities.

http://www.teaandtoast.ie/?p=399 ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday November 30, 2010 - 12:44 by Jaws   text 1 comment (last - tuesday november 30, 2010 - 14:37)
The latest leaks from Wikileaks offer proof for what many have suspected for a long time - that American embassies are little more than fronts for the activities of the CIA and other US spying agencies .
Patrick Martin , reviewing the latest batch of wikileaks in light of the terrorist murder two days ago of another Iranian nuclear scientist , writes that US embassies have been instructed to focus their espionage activities on plans for the overthrow of the present Iranian regime.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees the anti-Iran propaganda and Islamophobia as having paid dividends for the zionists . Martin quotes Netanyahu saying :
“Our region has been hostage to a narrative that is the result of 60 years of propaganda, which paints Israel as the greatest threat. In reality leaders understand that that view is bankrupt. For the first time in history there is agreement that Iran is the threat.” ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Friday November 26, 2010 - 15:37 by Anti EU/IMF Asset Stripping Citizen   text 14 comments (last - monday december 06, 2010 - 06:30)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
WATCH: only 2.36 minutes: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7806291/

After watching the humorous, but accurate little video, check out the nasty figures provided in this New York Times article:

"Will Ireland Default? Ask Belgium", By SIMON JOHNSON:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/will-irela...gium/

Extract: "But look at loans outstanding relative to the size of their domestic economies (using the data from the Bank for International Settlements on what it calls “ultimate risk basis”).

German banks are owed $139 billion, which is 4.2 percent of German G.D.P. British banks are owed $131 billion, or about 5 percent of Great Britain’s G.D.P. French banks are owed $43.5 billion, which is approaching 2 percent of French G.D.P." ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Thursday November 25, 2010 - 21:51 by V. N. Ceremos   text 1 comment (last - friday november 26, 2010 - 00:03)
The cryptome website carries some photos of student protests throughout Europe ... read full story / add a comment
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